Pax Plena

I take the only desire one can really permit oneself. Freedom…to ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing. Ayn RandThe Fountainhead

Haven’t posted a good song lyric in a while. Below is my latest favorite country song. The artist is Carrie Underwood and the title is “I Ain’t in Checotah Anymore.” I like it because it reminds me a lot of home. Especially the line, I’m in a world so wide, It makes me feel small…

I sit here in Dupont Circle on a brilliant fall afternoon. The sounds of the neighborhood reverberate in the background intermixing with the splashing water of the fountain. Beauty in all its manifestations converges on this point. From the businessman in gray checking his blackberry, to the homeless man sleeping near the chess tables, each…

Four years ago, life as we knew it changed. As a member of the class of 9/11, I can vividly remember the preparations I was making for my freshman year at Dartmouth and the Outing Club Trip which was to introduce me to campus. I had packed my bags and made all the necessary preparations…

In a compelling show of magnanimity, one which I seldom see in the New York Times, columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote a follow-up to his article of a year ago by revisiting two slaves he purchased from a Cambodian brothel. On the surface, this article seems very crass. It is untenable to think that that a…